Insight, News, and Strategy on Immigration Matters Around the World
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to hear a case challenging President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration. The Supreme Court will decide whether President Obama can proceed with plans to defer deportation and provide work authorization to millions of individuals currently in the United States without lawful status.
The Supreme Court granted certiorari in…
On December 3, 2014, NBC News reportedly obtained a November 3 letter written by Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Stephen Legomsky, Hiroshi Motomura, and Michael Olivas – four distinguished immigration law professors. The professors did not take a position on who should be included in the President’s executive action, but instead advocate that the President is…
Not two weeks after the President announced his executive action on immigration, 17 states, including Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin, led by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, are challenging the executive action under the U.S. Constitution’s Take Care…
“If House Republicans are really concerned about me taking too many executive actions, the best solution to that is passing bills,” said President Barack Obama on June 30, 2014. “Pass a bill. Solve a problem. Don’t just say no on something that everybody agrees needs to be done.”
These statements come a week after House…
In a meeting with Embassy staff at the U.S. Embassy in London, Secretary of State John Kerry has announced that the Department of State would treat same-sex married couples as equal to other married couples. Kerry stated:
If you are the spouse of a U.S. citizen, your visa application will be treated equally. If you
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The U.S. Supreme Court has taken another swipe at an Arizona statute that addresses the State’s response to illegal immigration. In Arizona v. Intertribal Council of Arizona, Inc., No. 12-71 (June 17, 2013), the Court invalidated part of Arizona’s voter registration law, which required applicants to submit documentary evidence of citizenship when registering to vote…
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s release of its decision in United States v. Windsor, No. 12-307 (June 26, 2013), DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano issued an updated statement confirming that “President Obama [had] directed federal departments to ensure the decision and its implication for federal benefits for same-sex legally married couples are implemented swiftly and smoothly.”…
On the heels of the immigration reform plan outlined by a bipartisan Senate group earlier this week, President Obama presented his own proposal for immigration reform in Las Vegas on January 29. Although he promised reform in his first term, he believes that “now is the time.” The bipartisan support is a good sign, the…
The U.S. Supreme Court (with just eight justices sitting) has held oral argument on the U.S. Department of Justice’s challenge to Arizona’s Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (“S.B. 1070”) in Arizona v. U.S., No. 11-182. Justice Elena Kagan is not participating in the case because she was the Solicitor General and involved…
Speaking before the American public (and Snow White, the Seven Dwarfs, and Mickey Mouse at Disney World), President Barrack Obama announced an expansion of the Global Entry program, including the easing of B1/B2 tourist processing times at consular posts around the globe, among other things.
Global Entry is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection program…
